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  • Opinion: What's the 'Overton Window' and Why Should You Care?

    06/17/2010 5:55:19 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 20 replies · 1,133+ views
    AOL News ^ | June 16, 2010 | Glenn Beck
    (June 15) -- If you aren't the least bit concerned about the health of America's freedoms, you are either a) in a multiyear-long drug induced coma, B) Sean Penn, or C) dead. And you've definitely never heard of Overton's Window. The Overton Window is a political theory developed by the late Joseph Overton, a brilliant public policy strategist and ardent free-marketer. Overton observed that "when public policies in a given area (education, health care) are arranged from freest to least free, only a relatively narrow window of options will be considered politically acceptable." The theory says the window will gradually...